The neuromuscular synapse, whereby neurons control muscle, requires the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Muscle-specific receptor kinase (MuSK) ensures acetylcholine receptors on the muscle are densely ...

Serafini and colleagues provide evidence that neuroligin acts as a trans-neuronal signal to induce presynaptic differentiation at neuron–neuron connections in vitro. To form a synaptic ...

When a person thinks, speaks, eats, walks, or just sits comfortably with all bodily systems functioning normally, the billions of cells that make up the brain and the rest of the nervous system ...

For many years, a major challenge for neuroscientists has been the identification of the proteins that are responsible for communication at synapses. Now, using a large-scale RNA interference ...